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Chapter 936 The Era of Chasing Fire (Part 1)

Chapter 936 The Era of Chasing Fire (Part 1)

It was as if all the twilight of countless years had condensed into dazzling gold, and the world tree that grew from that gold, with every branch and leaf falling and disintegrating, vanished into the void and then seeped into the abyss.

"What it is?"

Jiang Li snapped out of his daze at this rare and magnificent destruction. He squinted and stared at the middle of the tree segment, where a vortex of brilliant light seemed to be sweeping around, like a headless fly scrambling and rolling around in the muddy darkness.

Chu Hai was in a daze when he heard this and glanced over: "You don't know the surviving natives' means of transportation, do you?! Holy crap?!"

Like an old man leisurely strolling across a zebra crossing, he hears the distant roar of a motorcycle with a cigarette butt being cut off by a young man, and glances over casually, only to be startled the next second.

A Dodge Tomahawk at full power suddenly came hurtling towards our face from 150 meters away.

It was a wolf with its tongue lolling out.

Paji——

His vision went black, and he lay sprawled on the cracked space barrier.

It seems like he was just run over by some hundred-ton dump truck.

With a series of cracking sounds and excruciating pain, as if his bones were being shattered, Chu Hai stood up in a daze, the sounds of hell breaking apart and the screams of some abyssal creatures still echoing in his ears.

"The 86 has gone down the mountain!"

"Greedy Wolf Star has arrived! Get out of the way!"

"Holy crap. Sorry, I thought it was a speed bump."

This voice sounds a bit like that slut with ripped pants who's trying to seduce girls from his mother's family.

Chu Hai's eyelids twitched, but before he could even draw his sword, he discovered that besides a mess in the abyss, there wasn't even a single dog hair to be found.

"Why is this tree hollow?" Jiang Li exclaimed in surprise.

All that could be seen was a pile of tree bark and fallen leaves gradually dissolving into the abyss, just like a pile of rotten wood that could be found anywhere in the forest.

"How about we give this pile of garbage to the Garbage Queen? She likes garbage too, anyway."

"Uh, that's not a good idea."

As the two were talking, the pile of fallen wood exploded with a bang.

A weakened black dragon sped off in a certain direction at an incredible speed, and even a black peacock that appeared halfway through its journey failed to stop it.

"The cunning thing discovered us long ago, so it hid?" Although the King of Ku had failed, his interest remained undiminished: "Chu Hai, being so careless has committed dereliction of duty. You should just commit suicide to save face."

"I can't commit suicide, but I'm good at helping others commit suicide," Chu Hai said, not minding showing off his verbal skills at this moment.

But at this moment, their eyes turned cold and solemn as they turned to look at the pile of rotten wood from which the black dragon had sprung out.

The lifeless wood of the world rotted, secreting black sap. Within that scene of decay, a concentrated image of the earth collapsing and time passing away, a sinister panda pawed at the wood, crawling on all fours as it walked straight out.

Jiang Li: "."

Chu Hai: "."

Perhaps it was some kind of instinct etched into their DNA, stigmata, or soul, but the two minotaurs always felt their hearts skip a beat.

“My daughter’s birthday is coming up soon. She probably prefers pandas to pigeons,” Chu Hai said.

“I can lend it to her to ride then.” Jiang Li looked at the panda, his tone a mixture of sorrow and joy: “It’s been a long time since we last met, since the ancient war.”

FNNDP, is this the one you know?

Just as the Lord of War and Chi You were about to fight over the ownership of the mount, the panda stood up and looked at the two of them. Despite having no intelligence, it smirked and revealed a ferocious and chilling bloodthirsty smile.

[Complete Form - Greedy Wolf Star]

[Ultimate Form - Fenrir]

Having completed yet another evolution, Huai Shi ran through the abyss, even crashing into many innocent flowers and plants due to its excessive speed.

Along the way, we also encountered some familiar dark snow-capped mountains, hell plains marked with craters, and hell near the ancient city gate with the words "Liyue" written on it, all of which had been smashed open.

Even so, it remains the only officially designated vehicle for the Wandering Hell.

Huai Shi needs to find a safe place as soon as possible; there is no safe place in the abyss at all.

But at least until he discovers the new world in the wild, he cannot afford to get entangled with the strange things in the abyss.

This place is too strange. There is no distinction between up, down, left, and right. But the deeper you go, the more trouble you will encounter. So after chasing his own tail around in circles, Huai Shi began to determine his location using the scholars' depth detection devices.

Just run towards the area with lower depth!

"If it weren't for yesterday's express delivery's spatial folding and packaging technology, the entire civilization would have been reduced to ruins by a magnitude 10 earthquake long ago."

Squirrel Hang carefully placed the pigeon that had fallen off the offering table and had a bump on its head in the church on Huai Shi's body.

But as she ran, Su Ge fell down again.

After thinking it over, Squirrel Hang looked at the cross and tied the sleeping Su Ge to it to secure her.

"That way, Senior Su Lin won't fall," Squirrel Hang said, hands on his hips.

Zhu Hongchen and the others glanced at Su Lin in his Good Friday costume and decided to temporarily keep Chu Qingyu and the phoenix tree inside the folded space.

"The depth value is a bit off."

The scholars operated the instruments and saw the numbers jumping back and forth between [1] and [10].

At first, everyone thought that Huai Shi couldn't find the way to the void, but later they discovered that even if he stopped in the [depth value 1] area for a period of time, the depth value would automatically increase.

"Based on the models sent from the Institute of Existence, and the problems we're currently facing, I have reason to suspect that the Abyss is absorbing the Void, and this process is irreversible."

The fox tossed two sugar cubes into its mouth to replenish the energy its brain had just used up: "There's no escaping it. Even if another era is born, it will be a universe within the abyss, and there will be no more void after that."

He snapped out of his mental exhaustion, but cold sweat had already soaked his dry hair.

For a long time, everyone's perspective has been focused on the cycle of the world, ignoring the things that spread along the remnants of the old era at the end of each era. Besides the pile of undead, the abyss itself is also expanding.

This process was originally quite slow, but it was accelerated by some unknown factor.

“It seems we can only survive in the abyss.” Ai Qing thought for a moment and said, “It’s within the expected range. The recycling and manufacturing of resources can keep up with the progress of civilization at present.”

"The path forward for the extraordinary system is blocked, but in Huai Shi, this living hell, the laws of the past can still be applied normally." Chu Hongchen looked at Squirrel Hang and said:

"Next, we should focus on developing overall science and technology, and strive to break through the disordered state of the laws in the abyss as soon as possible."

“No problem.” Squirrel Hang nodded: “We in Bikini Bottom will definitely cooperate with your Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.”

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Although the forces that have survived through several eras can be called forbidden zones, can these names really allow him to pass through?

In this way, Huai Shi no longer kept moving, but moved every once in a while, keeping its depth below the highest level of shielding[5].

Moreover, being with a husky in the snow and ice would give him a positive buff. Huai Shi felt that the air in the abyss even had a sweet smell, and gradually, his power became greater.

After that, time flew by.

The continuation of the institution.

Many creators and scholars are trying to decipher the framework connecting the Witch's Night and the Grand Mystery.

Even though I've gambled everything on Rainbow Bridge with the neighboring bureau, I still need to keep at least three thousand dollars for myself to buy an electric scooter for food delivery. In case I go bankrupt, I can at least make a living and avoid having to jump off a building, right?

The more one analyzes and observes, the closer the world that the 'world-devouring giant wolf Fenrir,' which resembles the Dyson sphere envisioned by scholars, seems to be to the normal benchmark of the present world.

It might be a bit complicated, but to put it simply, the world on Huai Shi's back is almost identical to the real world, and Witch's Night itself is growing towards a multiverse!

In the center of the experimental area, a tree-like multiverse model of light and darkness was created. The debris beneath it had been completely cleared away, but from the point where the roots connected, the darkened branches began to spread the blackness.

At a speed visible to the naked eye, the entire Tree of the Multiverse is being eroded by the Abyss.

"Block the timeline, cut off all world lines, and only keep the main cadres!"

All the infinitely split worldlines were cut off, but the things that were cut off began to converge, and a deep malice and grotesqueness spread from the flowing darkness.

"So this House of Cards theory can be applied?" Qingteil's uncertain voice rang out.

Just like building a house of cards, removing any one card can cause the whole thing to collapse, making it less sturdy than a tower of blocks.

In the multiverse, as long as one timeline ends up being corrupted and destroyed by the abyss, that ending will be contained by the abyss and become unique.

How many times did they fail?

"The total number of existing records and Rainbow Bridge restarts is 10800."

Like a composite of death and destruction, the timeline, once fully assembled, cast a strange, dragon-like shadow over the abyss.

"The most troublesome thing has caught up."

Huai Shi's years in the abyss were not boring.

Occasionally, a black dragon would jump out and play hide-and-seek with him. Whenever this happened, Huai Shi could release the energy that he couldn't vent on ordinary days.

"I'll chase you, and if I catch you, I'll...hehehe...woof—"

Huai Shi took a bite, then gnawed the rest away.

The black dragon pulled away the depth and disappeared into the hell below [20] depth once again, giving Huai Shi a venomous look before disappearing.

"Senior Sakura, even if you drive a Maybach and a Bugatti, you still can't catch up with my senior sister, but I have a powerful underworld heiress from Yingzhou by my side."

Huai Shi sighed, "Please don't run away."

That black dragon was cowardly, slippery, and stuck to me like a piece of chewing gum, but it couldn't beat Huai Shi, who had eaten six layers of the World Tree, so it could only keep following.

Even if Huai Shi said something that he himself thought was a bit sarcastic, the black dragon would not show any emotion, just like a predator patiently probing its prey.

Huai Shi carried the weight of the entire civilization on his shoulders, so naturally he couldn't catch up.

This annoyed him, giving him the feeling of being crushed in a strategy game. Even when he managed to bite off a chunk of meat a few times, it turned into darkness in his mouth. The black dragon would return to the abyss and then reappear soon after, always maintaining a fixed distance.

I feel inexplicably uneasy.

Then, Murphy's Law came into play.

"Huai Shi, something's happened." That day, Squirrel Hang brought a message: "All the Ascended Ones have shown signs of erosion."

Interfering with the inherent laws of Huai Shi, this living hell, the abyssal erosion erupted once again, and this time without any warning.

He immediately stopped running, slowly lay down, allowing the mortal realm, which was in a spatial fold, to unfold rapidly. At the same time, he surrounded the entire realm in the middle to prevent the black dragon from launching a sneak attack without any martial ethics.

The situation is worse than we thought.

Civilization's development has stalled, ordinary people are living in a state of decadence and debauchery, and the number of conflicts among the ascendants has surged. Some mutated ascendants have become complete monsters, spreading destruction and chaos within themselves.

The ascendants who served as the sun and moon were drawn into factional struggles within the civilization, and the alliance began to crack due to Ragnarok and internal issues of faith.

All sorts of messy things are mixed together, making you want to just restart the game.

"what happened?"

"The numerical corrections made to the timeline abyss from those failed plans are reshaping reality."

"Is it related to me not eating Nidhogg to complete the cycle?"

By the time Huai Shi had finished digesting Odin, Nidhogg had already fled.

"It's possible, but other failed timelines may have already been corrupted—this kind of erosion on timelines."

Squirrel Hang paused for a moment and said, "It's like the situation we encountered in Marvel."

For the first time, I felt that the local abyss was relatively stable, unlike the troublesome abysses in other places. This level of strangeness is almost comparable to the ultimate form of a certain god.

“But I can’t just go after that black dragon.” Huai Shi looked into the endless abyss.

Once he leaves here, it will inevitably lead to a situation where he is lured away from the mountain, and the technology to analyze the abyss in a way that allows all life to adapt has not yet been developed.

"It's alright, you stay here and help us block the corrupted Senior Mingfei," Squirrel Hang said. "It seems like all the seniors in the group are almost dead."

"Oh, there are two more seniors. Yang Jian and the others have also gone to handle it, so don't worry."

No wonder I'm worried!

I wish I could be of some other use besides pulling the sled.

Huai Shi sighed helplessly: "I really envy you, Senior Shuhang, you were able to transcend in just one year."

"If we go back now and finish the story, and there are no unexpected changes, it won't actually take a year."

Squirrel Hang did some calculations: "But there's nothing to envy. I've always been suppressing my progress to avoid the side effects of leveling up too quickly."

"What side effects?" Huai Shi asked.

"The foundation is not solid."

You should just go to jail.

Huai Shi rolled his eyes and looked up. If miracles and calamities were equal, he hoped that this squirrel in front of him would one day become a sturdy pine tree because of the long-term foundation it had laid.

[Pantheon] (crossed out) [Three Thousand Gods and Demons Exchange Center] (crossed out) → [Valhalla Phase I Project]

Inside Valhalla.

"Using divine beings as a substitute for the awakening of the Silver Sea through dragon blood is an imperfect path to sublimation, and it still has its drawbacks," the fox said, chewing on his pipe.

"The existing system of stigmata will completely collapse, and the miracles bestowed by the deceased gods will be returned to the abyss."

"These are all secondary issues. The real problem is that we need to find a way to clean up those corrupted, failed timelines."

"And once the cleanup is truly complete, I'm afraid..."

"All those who ascend will die."

Moreover, even with Bikini Bottom, it's not certain that the corresponding technology could be developed immediately in the face of such an abstract situation as the erosion and coverage of world lines.

Furthermore, there is the possibility of being destroyed by the influence of 'Mars', and many ascendants have already fallen into self-destruction in their madness, making the order itself precarious.

Who could have imagined that after overcoming repeated failures, severing the connection between eras, and stepping into the abyss, the first 'enemy' encountered would be the 'world line' that was used as a sacrifice?

It's like a revenge.

Everyone in the decision-making room was gripped by deep anxiety.

At that moment, no one noticed that the pink-haired, antlered girl at the edge tugged at Iwamori's sleeve and said something.

Iwamori, who had been observing from the sidelines, smiled and agreed, "Okay."

(End of this chapter)